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EPA announces lead poisoning prevention week agency urges parents to protect children from exposure
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is recognizing National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week (NLPPW), October 24–30, 2010, to raise awareness of lead poisoning in children. Lead causes a variety of adverse health effects, including brain and nervous system disorders, high blood pressure and hypertension, and reproductive problems. For children, even low levels of exposure to lead can ...
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Orchestra BioMed Announces Late-Breaking Clinical Results Showing BackBeat Cardiac Neuromodulation Therapy Drives Significant Reduction in Systolic Blood Pressure
Double-blind, randomized trial data demonstrates clinically meaningful and statistically significant difference of 8.1 mmHg in reduction of 24-hour ambulatory systolic blood pressure at 6 months vs. control High responder rate despite 88.5% of treated patients having isolated systolic hypertension (ISH) Primary safety endpoint achieved with no difference in major cardiac adverse events ...
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Orchestra BioMed Secures $20 Million Financing Facility from Silicon Valley Bank
Orchestra BioMed, Inc. (“Orchestra BioMed” or the “Company”), a biomedical innovation company providing high-impact solutions for large unmet needs in procedure-based medicine, today announced that it has entered into a $20 million credit facility agreement with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank of the world’s most innovative companies and their investors. This ...
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The economic impact of noise pollution on human health
A recent report has assessed the latest research on the adverse affects of noise on health, focusing on approaches to estimating the economic cost of noise. This information could help policy makers tasked with designing cost-effective noise reduction and management policies. Increased traffic noise and the wider spread of a 24 hour society have contributed to rising complaints about ...
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Orchestra BioMed Strengthens Management Team with Appointments of Expert Product Development Leaders Juan A. Lorenzo and Paul V. Goode, Ph.D.
Orchestra BioMed, Inc., (“Orchestra BioMed” or the “Company”), a biomedical innovation company providing high-impact solutions for large unmet needs in procedure-based medicine, today announced senior-level appointments to its product development teams. Juan Lorenzo, an expert in vascular devices, joins as vice president, product development, Focal Therapies and will ...
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Orchestra BioMed Announces Peer-Reviewed Publication of MODERATO II Study Results Showing a Statistically Significant Reduction in Blood Pressure in Pacemaker-Indicated Patients Treated with BackBeat Cardiac Neuromodulation Therapy
Double-blind, randomized trial data show a clinically meaningful and statistically significant net reduction of 8.1 mmHg in 24-hour ambulatory systolic blood pressure at 6 months in treated vs. control patients Very high (85%) response rate to therapy despite 81% of treated patients having isolated systolic hypertension (ISH), a more dangerous and difficult to treat form of hypertension ...
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AVEO Oncology Presents Three Posters for Tivozanib/Immunotherapy Combinations at the 2022 ASCO GI Cancers Symposium
First line cohort of the Phase 1b/2 DEDUCTIVE study demonstrates promising efficacy and tolerability of tivozanib plus durvalumab in first line HCC Two trials in progress posters presentations for the DEDUCTIVE HCC study and the recently initiated Phase 1b/2 IMMCO-1 study of tivozanib and atezolizumab in multiple immunologically cold tumors AVEO Oncology (Nasdaq: AVEO), a commercial stage, ...
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AVEO Oncology Highlights Recent Progress and 2022 Outlook
AVEO Oncology (Nasdaq: AVEO), a commercial stage, oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company, today highlighted its recent progress and outlook for 2022. “I am proud of the entire AVEO team this year, as we accomplished several key milestones in the face of what remains a challenging environment with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,” said Michael Bailey, President and Chief Executive ...
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